David Davis at Dexeu special committee on the impact studies... says there arent any impact studies in the form they are defined by the Better Regulation Taskforce, are sectoral studies
Benn: Has the Government done impact assessments on leaving the EU for individual sectors?
Davis: not in sectors..theres no systematic impact assessments
Benn: Automotive?
Davis: No
Benn: Aerospace?
Davis: No. No on all of them
Davis: not in sectors..theres no systematic impact assessments
Benn: Automotive?
Davis: No
Benn: Aerospace?
Davis: No. No on all of them
Davis: I’m not a fan of economic models because they’re all proven wrong... is a paradigm change
Davis: when we started the impact assessments, err sectoral analyses, didnt know if we were going to do a negotiation sector by sector... now overall so ..actual impact assessments as you term it is not necessary piece by piece
Davis says that will do impact assessments as go into phase 2 to inform negotiation, eg on agriculture, but won’t release publicly
Davis: just because you use the word impact does not mean you have done an impact assessment
Davis implicitly criticises then Chief Whip for not voting against the Opoosition Day binding motion - as I recall this occurred hours before his elevation to Defence Secretary
Davis facing what sounds like a hanging jury here on possible contempt issues re binding motion...
Davis somewhat on the backfoot re: what assessment was available and precisely when and to whom, what was a summary, what was quantitative, what was excruciating detail
